Overview
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Python is a critical skill for network engineers. Learn the very basics of network programming with Python—the theoretical building blocks that will lead to better scripts.
Syllabus
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1. Theory Basics
- Very short overview
- Keep learning
- Python 2.7 and 3 setup
- Python 2.7 and 3 examples
- Basic Hello World scripts
- Python objects, part 1
- Python objects, part 2
- Python variables, part 1
- Python variables, part 2
- Python variables, part 3
- Python variables, part 4
- Python data types
- Python data testing
- Introduction to numbers
- Numeric types
- Int and float
- Operators, part 1
- Operators, part 2
- Operators, part 3
- Binary, hex, octal, part 1
- Binary, hex, octal, part 2
- Int calculations
- Floats
- Introduction to strings
- Strings
- Convert to a string using str()
- Escape special character with backslash
- Strings continued
- String concatenation
- Multiplication operator
- String offsets: Extract using brackets
- String slicing, part 1
- String slicing, part 2
- String slicing, part 3
- Lower and upper
- Startswith and endswith
- strip, lstrip and rstrip
- isdigit
- count
- Old style using percent
- New way of using braces
- dir
- Get show version from a switch
- Telnet and string offset
- Show version using len
- Split, part 1
- Split, part 2
- List and join
- List and len: Interface example
- Index introduction
- Real switch get version using index
- Python3 Telnet to switch
- Count
- Use find to get information from switch
- Python 3 Telnet versus Python 2.7
- Find not found
- String methods: upper
- String methods: startswith and endswith
- String methods: strip
- String methods: split demo
- String methods: join
- String methods: is it in string
- String concatenation
- Capitalize, upper, lower, swap
- Lists vs. tuples
- Lists overview
- Create a list using split
- Lists in lists
- Lists vs. tuples: Documentation
- List, merge, and extend
- List methods
- Lists, insert, and delete
- List pop, index, and n
- Reverse sort
- Len, copy list
- Tuples overview
- Tuples and sequences
- If logic
- Physical router demonstration
- EsleIf
- While loop
- Infinite while loop with break
- Infinite while loop with continue
- While loop with a list
- While loop with else
- For loops
- For loop with dictionary
- For loop with if and lists
- Ranges, part 1
- Ranges, part 2
- Dictionary theory
- Dictionary demo
- Combine dictionaries
- Dictionaries: Clear and check
- Dictionaries: Add values
- Functions intro, part 1
- Functions intro, part 2
- Functions intro, part 3
- Netmiko and router demo, part 1
- Netmiko and router demo, part 2
- Named keyword argument
